The UK’s leading network of regional job boards today announced that it was expanding with the creation of 20 new jobs at its headquarters in Sheffield. MyJobGroup.co.uk, which operates over 300 regional job boards across the UK, also confirmed that record web traffic and increased candidate numbers were helping to fuel its growth.
Following several consecutive months of record web traffic, the company is expanding all its divisions, with Sales, IT and Finance witnessing the largest departmental growth.
With the UK jobs market staging a comeback, MyJobGroup.co.uk latest announcement will enable the company to capitalise on the expected growth in online recruitment over the coming financial year.
The company believes that online recruitment will gain further prominence in the recruitment strategies of SMEs and large companies throughout 2011, citing its cost effectiveness and time saving qualities compared to other recruitment methods.
MyJobGroup.co.uk, which recently announced the appointment of Geraldine Finn as Managing Director, has witnessed rapid growth since it was founded five years ago and now boasts a network of over 300 regionalised job sites, all tailored to their specific geographical area; the largest such network in the UK.
Geraldine Finn, Managing Director of MyJobGroup.co.uk, said: “We are delighted to announce the creation of 20 jobs as we continue our expansion and the boost that this will bring to the local economy.
“We are thrilled to be expanding the business across all divisions, particularly in sales, IT and finance and we look forward to welcoming new members to our rapidly growing team over the coming weeks.
“That we are able to announce jobs growth is testament to our philosophy of ‘local is better’ when it comes to sourcing the ideal candidate. Employers have increasingly recognised how our regionalised job sites speed up and economise their recruitment process and are turning to MyJobGroup.co.uk as a result.”